Seeing ourselves in others

Once I encountered my niece digging through the dress-up bin in the house where I grew up, mixing and matching her way into an alternate identity. I asked if she liked to wear Grandma’s clothes to be like Grandma. “No,” she said. “I like to be reminded that Grandma is a lot like me.” It is good to remind ourselves that most of the people Jesus encountered were a lot like us, especially when we feel our own faith lives do not measure up.

This message is an excerpt from “As God sees us” by Audrey West,in the July/August 2017 issue of Gather magazine. Today we remember Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe, renewer of the church, who died in 1872.

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